Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Iran aims biological warheads at Israel

Source confirms missiles in underground silos target Tel Aviv

Iran has 170 ballistic missiles aimed at Tel Aviv, many with biological warheads, WND has learned.

According to a source who served in Iran’s Intelligence Ministry and
who recently defected, the Islamic regime has armed hundreds of its
ballistic missiles with biological warheads, and 170 of them are
targeting Tel Aviv from underground missile silos.

The Islamic regime ruling Iran has prepared for the total destruction of Israel, he said.

As reported in the Washington Times in August,
a commentary in Mashregh, the media outlet of Iran’s Revolutionary
Guards, confirmed that the Islamic regime not only has weapons of mass
destruction but has armed its terrorist proxies with them, including
Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad. The commentary warned Israel that if the
fighting in Syria does not stop, an all-out attack on the Jewish state
will be launched and that at zero hour, Tel Aviv will be the first city
to be destroyed.

The source, talking to WND, confirmed that Iran has made significant
advances on several fronts – chemical, biological, nuclear and
electronic warfare – and that the regime is looking at the deterioration
in Syria and the possibility of an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities
with the intent of setting Israel and the region on fire.

The regime is adamant about its support of Syrian President Bashar
al-Assad, the source said, and is working on its nuclear weapons program
at several sites unknown to the West. The International Atomic Energy
Agency, the source said, is on the wrong track by focusing only on the
Natanz and Fordo nuclear sites.

There are more than 70 North Korean military advisers and scientists
working in Iran on the country’s defense projects, including work on a
plutonium bomb, the source said.

The Associated Press reported exclusively
last week that the Islamic regime’s scientists have worked on a design
for a plutonium bomb with three times the explosive force of what was
used on Hiroshima.

An exclusive report by WND
revealed that a secret nuclear site, code name Valayat 1, had been
constructed at an underground facility in the outskirts of Najafabad in
Isfahan Province. Iranian scientists there were working on a neutron
detonator and implosion system along with separating plutonium for an
implosion-type fission bomb.

“In the negotiations that America pursues, there is no positive
outcome for Iran as the matters between America and Iran on the
strategic level are so vast there can’t be any negotiations,” Saeidi
said. “America is after its dominance of the world and will never give
up its nature … surely in their negotiations, they want Iran to give up
its support of Hezbollah in Lebanon, resistance in Palestine, the
regional movements and worldwide Shiites.”

Khamenei, in a speech
to navy commanders last week on the country’s military achievements,
said, “A look at the situation and the recent events in the region and
the world clearly shows the upper hand of the Islamic republic of Iran.”

A close adviser to the supreme leader, Alireza Panahian, also last week in a speech widely covered by the regime, said “victory for the faithful” is close.

“Based on the recent events and the expansion of the Islamic movement
in the region … and based on logical calculation, the coming is upon us
and in the coming years everything will be finished,” he said, adding
that with the regime’s leadership, the coming of the last Islamic
Messiah, the Shiites’ 12th Imam, is soon and a certainty. Shiites
believe Mahdi’s coming will be preceded by Armageddon.

As of today, the total was 20,022. The 20,000th came a few days ago
when a Jewish woman was cut in pieces in Iran by religious radicals
“intent on expanding a mosque.”

Some 1,800 deadly Muslim terror attacks happen each year, amounting to about 150 a month and five a day.

The purpose of the website, according to operator Glen Roberts, a
pseudonym, is to put the level of violence being inflicted by Muslims in
perspective.

“I started watching [the Council on American-Islamic Relations] in
the months after 9/11,” said Roberts, “and I was astonished by the
self-absorption. Each day people are maimed and killed explicitly in the
name of Islam while this organization complains about headscarves and
hurt feelings.

“I thought,” he said, “that maybe if I started documenting the
violence, it would inspire a sense of moral perspective on their part.

“I was wrong, of course.”

He said he monitors acts of Muslim violence from a range of news
sources that are reliable, when “it can be reasonably inferred that the
perpetrator was motivated to some degree by their Islamic faith.”

“I do not post anything that I believe to be false,” he said. ” …
This is not to say that mistakes haven’t been made, but they are
unintentional and relatively rare.”

Fatal attacks that are reported to him only are posted when they can
be verified with a reference to a news sources that he would consider
reliable.

He said while he’s not been able to convince Muslims that their faith is violent, he hopes others take notice.

“Critics seem to assume that I’m trying to convince others that they
are in mortal danger or that Muslims are bad people because they are
Muslim. This is not true, of course,” he told WND.

“The evidence presented by TheReligionofPeace.com is meant to drive
home the message that Islam is not like other religion,” he said. “It is
openly supremacist and more vulnerable to violent interpretations. When
one religion inspires over 1,500 faith-motivated acts of violence each
year while other religions contribute practically none, then it should
be obvious that there are unique problems – and it should be OK to say
so.”

He wrote that Islam continues to be “an open threat” to Western liberal values, including freedom of conscience.

“There is already pressure against free speech rights, particularly
in Europe. We should be highly concerned about the logical path of the
current trend regardless of whether or not the full consequences of
Muslim immigration and deference to the increasing volume of Muslim
demand will be experienced in our lifetime,” he said.

“Judging by the one-way flow of immigration, even Muslims find
Islamic countries less livable. What sense does it make to continue
importing and catering to an ideology that doesn’t work elsewhere –
particularly when Islamic immigrants as a group are the most notoriously
resistant to integration and acceptance of Western values?”

He said Muslims in the West who say that Islam is a religion of peace are generally sincere.

“They want to believe that their religion is superior, which wouldn’t
be the case if it brought violence instead of peace,” he said.
“Therefore, they convince themselves and others that Islam is really
just the Judeo-Christian value system an Arabic vocabulary.”

He said the “far less pleasant reality is that those who want to
believe in ‘peaceful Islam’ have a lot more of Islam to ignore than do
the jihadis.”

Roberts wrote: “On a
week in which two suicide bombers slaughtered over 54 Christian and
Druze and Sunni extremists massacred nearly 200 Shiites in Iraq, TROP
recorded our 20,000th Islamic terror attack since 9/11. It happened to
be the stabbing and dismemberment of a Jewish woman in her Iranian home
by religious radicals intent on expanding a mosque.”

A UPI report explained the Jewish woman was stabbed to death and her family blamed her death on a religious motivation.

The victim, identified in the report as just Tuba N., was attacked
allegedly by her Muslim neighbors after they had been trying to drive
her family from their home and confiscate the property.

“Thugs broke into her home, tied up her two sisters who were living
with her, and repeatedly stabbed her to death,” said the report.

A list of headlines on the site was equally thought-provoking. The
site listed a musician in Mali who was ordered into silence on the
threat of having her tongue cut out, a teen in India who was found with
chains around his hands and feet who claimed he had been chained after
trying to leave a Muslim madrassa.

Then there was the Australian stabbed for “insulting the prophet,”
advocacy for child marriages, the massacre of 10 Christians, a
15-year-old killed for dating a boy, a tailor now dead for making
“inappropriate” women’s clothes and a gang-rape and murder.

The site explains the Quran has at least 109 verses that “call Muslims to war with nonbelievers for the sake of Islamic rule.”

“Some are quite graphic, with commands to chop off heads and fingers and kill infidels wherever they may be hiding.”

The site continues: “Unlike nearly all of the Old Testament verses of
violence, the verses of violence in the Quran are mostly open-ended,
meaning that they are not restrained by the historical context of the
surrounding text. They are part of the eternal, unchanging word of
Allah, and just as relevant or subjective as anything else in the
Quran.”

One verse, for example, states, “Those who believe fight in the cause of Allah.”

The site says there are 10 reasons Islam is not a “religion of
peace.” One is the thousands of terror acts committed in the name of
Islam, while acts committed in the names of other religions have been
minimal. More people are killed by Muslim terrorists each year than in
all 350 years of the Spanish Inquisition. The daily Muslim terror toll
is more than the Ku Klux Klan killed in 50 years.

Muhammad, meanwhile, “had people killed for insulting him or for criticizing his religion,” the site explains.

“Muhammad inspired his men to war with the basest of motives, using
captured loot, sex and a gluttonous paradise as incentives. He beheaded
captives, enslaved children and raped women captured in battle.

“Muslims continued their jihad against other religions for 1400
years, checked only by the ability of non-Muslims to defend themselves.
To this day, not a week goes by that Islamic fundamentalists do not
attempt to kill Christians, Jews, Hindus and Buddhists explicitly in the
name of Allah,” the site explains.

“Islam spreads like a virus. It radiates from Muslim countries that
are too diseased to support it and into healthy systems that are that
way because they have had the luxury of developing apart from Islam.
Once in the host system, the Islam virus uses the existing machinery to
make replicas of itself. Over time, the host makes unilateral
concessions to the religion, feeding and appeasing it in the vain hope
that this supremacist ideology can be tamed,” the site warns.

“In a matter of time, the entire system groans to an agonizing death
and assumes the condition of the diseased nations from which Muslims
originally fled.”

WND previously reported Roberts received an email threatening: “We
will kill you. Like this,” referring to an attached photograph of a man
who had been beheaded, his body resting chest down on grass and his
lifeless head placed in the middle of his back. Another photograph
showed a bloody knife.

And when We took compact with the Children of Israel: 'You
shall not serve any save God; and to be good to parents, and the near
kinsman, and to orphans, and to the needy; and speak good to men, and
perform the prayer, and pay the alms.' Then you turned away, all but a
few of you, swerving aside. And when We took compact with you: 'You
shall not shed your own blood, neither expel your own from your
habitations'; then you confirmed it and yourselves bore witness. Then
there you are killing one another, and expelling a party of you from
their habitations, conspiring against them in sin and enmity; and if
they come to you as captives, you ransom them; yet their expulsion was
forbidden you. What, do you believe in part of the Book, and disbelieve
in part? What shall be the recompense of those of you who do that, but
degradation in the present life, and on the Day of Resurrection to be
returned unto the most terrible of chastisement? And God is not heedless
of the things you do. Those who have purchased the present life at the
price of the world to come -- for them the chastisement shall not be
lightened, neither shall they be helped.

And We gave to Moses the Book, and after him sent succeeding
Messengers; and We gave Jesus son of Mary the clear signs, and confirmed
him with the Holy Spirit; and whensoever there came to you a Messenger
with that your souls had not desire for, did you become arrogant, and
some cry lies to, and some slay? And they say, 'Our hearts are
uncircumcised.'

Nay, but God has cursed them for their unbelief; little
will they believe. When there came to them a Book from God, confirming
what was with them -- and they aforetimes prayed for victory over the
unbelievers -- when there came to them that they recognized, they
disbelieved in it; and the curse of God is on the unbelievers. Evil is
the thing they have sold themselves for, disbelieving in that which God
sent down, grudging that God should send down of His bounty on
whomsoever He will of His servants, and they were laden with anger upon
anger; and for unbelievers awaits a humbling chastisement.

And when they were told, 'Believe in that God has sent down,' they
said, 'We believe in what was sent down on us'; and they disbelieve in
what is beyond that, yet it is the truth confirming what is with them.
Say: 'Why then were you slaying the Prophets of God in former time, if
you were believers?'

And Moses came to you with the clear signs, then you took to
yourselves the Calf after him and you were evildoers. And when We took
compact with you, and raised over you the Mount: 'Take forcefully what
We have given you and give ear.' They said, 'We hear, and rebel'; and
they were made to drink the Calf in their hearts for their unbelief.
Say: 'Evil is the thing your faith bids you to, if you are believers.'
Say: 'If the Last Abode with God is yours exclusively, and not for other
people, then long for death -- if you speak truly.' But they will never
long for it, because of that their hands have forwarded; God knows the
evildoers; and thou shalt find them the eagerest of men for life. And of
the idolaters; there is one of them wishes if he might be spared a
thousand years, yet his being spared alive shall not remove him from the
chastisement. God sees the things they do.

Say: 'Whosoever is an enemy to Gabriel -- he it was that brought it
down upon thy heart by the leave of God, confirming what was before it,
and for a guidance and good tidings to the believers. Whosoever is an
enemy to God and His angels and His Messengers, and Gabriel, and Michael
- surely God is an enemy to the unbelievers.' (2:83-98)

This passage reminds the Jews again of Allah’s favors, favors from
which most of them “turned away” (v. 83), and chastises them for their
willfulness and disobedience. Verse 85 summarizes their various acts of
disobedience: "Then there you are killing one another, and expelling a
party of you from their habitations, conspiring against them in sin and
enmity." This culminates in the assertion that the Jews believe only in
"part” of their sacred writings, and “disbelieve in part.”

Ibn Kathir says that they rejected parts of the Torah, and also:
“they should not be believed when it comes to the description of the
Messenger of Allah, his coming, his expulsion from his land, and his
Hijrah, and the rest of the information that the previous Prophets
informed them about him, all of which they hid. The Jews, may they
suffer the curse of Allah, hid all of these facts among themselves…”
Verses 88 and 89 emphasize that they have indeed been accursed for
rejecting Islam. (This is why most Muslims don’t accept the idea that
the Jews have any right to the land of Israel, despite Qur'an 5:21 and
other verses: an accursed people doesn’t receive Allah’s gifts.)

Verses 94-96 issue a challenge: if the Jews’ claim that Paradise is
reserved for them alone, why don’t they seek death, instead of being
"the eagerest of men for life”? This is the foundation of a jihadist
taunt, as an Al-Qaeda warrior in Afghanistan put it a few years ago:
“The Americans love Pepsi-Cola, we love death.”

The true believers long
for Paradise and disdain this world.

The passage ends with the assertion that the Jews' enemy is Allah himself.

7 Reasons Socialism Will Make You Poorer Than Capitalism

Given what we know in 2012, saying that capitalism will make a
society richer than socialism should be about as controversial as saying
the earth is round, not flat. Yet, a recent Gallup poll shows that more liberals have a positive view of socialism than capitalism.
This is only possible because there are so many perverse incentives
that drive the promotion of socialism. If you're a politician, socialism
puts power in your hands while capitalism takes it away. If you want to
use the government to control people's lives, socialism is a wonderful
vehicle to do just that while capitalism robs you of that opportunity.
If you would rather live off the dole than to work or alternately,
prefer to make money off "who you know" instead of "how good a service
you provide," again socialism works better for you. Now take into
account the fact that there are no pure socialist or capitalist
economies left and it becomes very easy to muddy the water and keep
people from realizing the obvious economic superiority of capitalism.

1) Socialism benefits the few at the expense of the many:
Socialism is superior to capitalism in one primary way: It offers more
security. It's almost like an extremely expensive insurance policy that
dramatically cuts into your quality of life, but insures that if worse
comes to worse, you won't drop below a very minimal lifestyle. For the
vast majority of people, this would be a terrible deal. On the other
hand, if you're lazy, completely incompetent or alternately, just have a
streak of very bad luck, the meager benefits provided by socialism may
be very appealing. So a socialist society forces the many to suffer in
order to make it easier for the few. It's just as Winston Churchill once noted, "The inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."2) Capitalism encourages entrepreneurship while socialism discourages it:
A government in a capitalist economy can quite easily give everyone
equality of opportunity with a few basic laws and regulations, but
socialism strives to create equality of results. This should frighten
people who value their freedom because ultimately, as F.A. Hayek has
noted, "A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers."
You can see this happening in America as our efforts to reduce
"inequality" have led to an ever expanding government and a vast
regulatory tangle that is almost unexplainable despite the fact that it
is certainly enforceable. Capitalism encourages people to start a
business and build a better life for themselves while socialism lays in
wait with IRS agents, nooses made of red tape and meddling bureaucrats
looking for businesses to control and loot.

3) Capitalism leads to innovation: Coming up with new products is
often time consuming, expensive and hit or miss. Nine ideas may fail
before that tenth one takes off. The less the creative people behind
these ideas are allowed to benefit, the less time, money and effort
they'll put into developing new concepts and inventions. Put another
way, the bigger the risk, the bigger the reward has to be to convince
people to take it. Capitalism offers big rewards for productive people
while socialism offers makers only a parade of bureaucratic leeches who
want to take advantage of their "good fortune."

4) Capitalism produces more economic growth: Capitalism produces considerably more economic growth than socialism and as John Kennedy said, "A rising tide lifts all boats."
A fast growing economy produces more jobs, more wealth and helps
everyone. Many people assume that capitalism isn't working if there are
still poor people, but that misses the point. In many parts of the
world, poverty means living in a hut with a dirt floor while in America,
most poor Americans have TVs, refrigerators and cell phones. The rich
may take home a larger share of the pie in capitalism, but the poor also
benefit tremendously from living in a growing, thriving economy.

5) Socialism is too slow to adapt: Capitalism is extremely good
at allocating capital to where it's most valued. It has to be. Either
you give people what they are willing to pay for or someone else will.
On the other hand, socialism is slow and stupid for a variety of
reasons. Because the government is spending someone else's money, it
doesn’t get particularly concerned about losing money. Political
concerns about appearances often trump the effectiveness of a program.
Moreover, even if politicians and bureaucrats are intelligent and
competent, which are big "ifs," they're simply not going to have the
specific knowledge needed to make decisions that may impact thousands of
different industries. This is why capitalism may have its share of
troubles, but when there are really colossal economic screw-ups, you'll
always find the government neck deep in the whole mess.

7) Capitalism works in concert with human nature while socialism works against it:Ayn Rand said it well, "America’s
abundance was created not by public sacrifices to ‘the common good,’
but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal
interests and the making of their own private fortunes. They did not
starve the people to pay for America’s industrialization. They gave the
people better jobs, higher wages and cheaper goods with every new
machine they invented, with every scientific discovery or technological
advance—and thus the whole country was moving forward and profiting, not
suffering, every step of the way," but Adam Smith said it better, “It
is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker,
that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.”
A man will work much harder to take care of himself, his family and his
friends than he will to make money for the state, which will then waste
most of it before redistributing it to people who aren't working as
hard as the man who earned it in the first place.

Fiscal Cliff Notes

Amid all the political and media hoopla about the "fiscal cliff" crisis, there are a few facts that are worth noting.

First
of all, despite all the melodrama about raising taxes on "the rich,"
even if that is done it will scarcely make a dent in the government's
financial problems. Raising the tax rates on everybody in the top two
percent will not get enough additional tax revenue to run the government
for ten days.

And what will the government do to pay for the other 355 days in the year?

All
the political angst and moral melodrama about getting "the rich" to pay
"their fair share" is part of a big charade. This is not about
economics, it is about politics. Taxing "the rich" will produce a drop
in the bucket when compared to the staggering and unprecedented deficits
of the Obama administration.

No previous administration in the
entire history of the nation ever finished the year with a trillion
dollar deficit.

The Obama administration has done so every single year.
Yet political and media discussions of the financial crisis have been
focused overwhelmingly on how to get more tax revenue to pay for past
and future spending.

The very catchwords and phrases used by the
Obama administration betray how phony this all is. For example, "We
are just asking the rich to pay a little more."

This is an insult
to our intelligence. The government doesn't "ask" anybody to pay
anything. It orders you to pay the taxes they impose and you can go to
prison if you don't.

Then there are all the fancy substitute
words for plain old spending-- words like "stimulus" or "investing in
the industries of the future."

The theory about "stimulus" is
that government spending will stimulate private businesses and financial
institutions to put more of their money into the economy, speeding up
the recovery. But the fact that you call something a "stimulus" does
not make it a stimulus.

Stimulus spending began during the
Bush administration and has continued full blast during the Obama
administration. But the end result is that both businesses and
financial institutions have had record amounts of their own money
sitting idle. The rate of circulation of money slowed down. All this
is the opposite of stimulus.

What about "investing in the
industries of the future"? Does the White House come equipped with a
crystal ball? Calling government spending "investment" does not make it
investment any more than calling spending "stimulus" makes it stimulate
anything.

What in the world would lead anyone to think that
politicians have some magic way of knowing what the industries of the
future are? Thus far the Obama administration has repeatedly "invested"
in the bankruptcies of the present, such as Solyndra.

Using lofty
words to obscure tawdry realities extends beyond the White House.
Referring to the Federal Reserve System's creation of hundreds of
billions of new dollars out of thin air as "quantitative easing" makes
it seem as if this is some soothing and esoteric process, rather than
amounting essentially to nothing more than printing more money.

Debasing
the value of money by creating more of it is nothing new or esoteric.
Irresponsible governments have done this, not just for centuries, but
for thousands of years.

It is a way to take people's wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.

All
the pretty talk about how tax rates will be raised only on "the rich"
hides the ugly fact that the poorest people in the country will see the
value of their money decline, just like everybody else, and at the same
rate as everybody else, when the government creates more money and
spends it.

If you have $100 and, after inflation follows from
"quantitative easing," that $100 dollars will only buy what $80 bought
before, then that is the same economically as if the government had
taxed away one-fifth of your money and spent it.

But it is not the
same politically, so long as gullible people don't look beyond words to
the reality that inflation taxes everybody, the poorest as well as the
richest.

The Gun Did It

Daily abuse of alcohol and painkillers didn’t contribute to Jovan Belcher’s murderous and suicidal rampage. The gun did it.

The effects of too many blows to the head suffered by his choice of
profession didn’t have anything to do with it either. The gun did it.

“Maybe brain damage triggered his violent overreaction to a fight with his girlfriend,” sportswriter Jason Whitlock
wrote on Sunday. “What I believe is, if he didn’t possess/own a gun, he
and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today.” NBC’s Bob Costas then
doubled down on this idea during halftime of the Sunday Night Football
telecast, quoting two anti-gun paragraphs from Whitlock’s article.

Belcher’s problem was not that he owned a gun. His problem was in the
choices he made. He chose for himself a brutal and violent profession
that left him racked with pain and possibly with a damaged brain.

Rather
than find a better way to make a living, he chose to continue to play
and try to mask the pain with daily doses of alcohol and drugs, ignoring
the effects they were having on his already addled brain.

Then, not appreciating the value of human life — his own and that of the mother of his child — he chose violence as a way out.

By blaming the gun, Whitlock and Costas attempted to absolve Belcher
of any responsibility for his actions. They also attempted to deflect
attention away from football — which indirectly pays their salary.

Football is a violent sport. Violent people play it. That violence is
encouraged by the owners (through the offering of huge contracts),
coaches and, most importantly, the fans, who wildly cheer the most
violent of impacts. A violent reaction from a football player should
come as no surprise. And research is showing that repeated concussions
cause unexpected behavioral changes.

But it wasn’t the gun that killed Perkins and Belcher. It was
Belcher. Guns are tools and nothing more.

Belcher was on a murderous
rampage — shooting Perkins nine times, which denotes a violent rage —
and he could have (and no doubt would have) just as easily used a knife,
a hammer or a screwdriver to kill Perkins. There are dozens of ways he
could have offed himself.

To blame the gun is the work of fools or people trying to protect their livelihood, or both.

PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's Mars
Curiosity rover has used its full array of instruments to analyze
Martian soil for the first time, and found a complex chemistry within
the Martian soil. Water and sulfur and chlorine-containing
substances, among other ingredients, showed up in samples Curiosity's
arm delivered to an analytical laboratory inside the rover.

Detection of the substances during this early phase of the
mission demonstrates the laboratory's capability to analyze diverse
soil and rock samples over the next two years. Scientists also have
been verifying the capabilities of the rover's instruments.

The
specific soil sample came from a drift of windblown dust and sand
called "Rocknest." The site lies in a relatively flat part
of Gale Crater still miles away from the rover's main destination on
the slope of a mountain called Mount Sharp. The rover's laboratory
includes the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) suite and the Chemistry
and Mineralogy (CheMin) instrument. SAM used three methods to analyze
gases given off from the dusty sand when it was heated in a tiny
oven. One class of substances SAM checks for is organic compounds --
carbon-containing chemicals that can be ingredients for life.

"We
have no definitive detection of Martian organics at this point, but
we will keep looking in the diverse environments of Gale Crater,"
said SAM Principal Investigator Paul Mahaffy of NASA's Goddard Space
Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.

Curiosity's team selected Rocknest
as the first scooping site because it has fine sand particles suited
for scrubbing interior surfaces of the arm's sample-handling
chambers. Sand was vibrated inside the chambers to remove residue
from Earth. MAHLI close-up images of Rocknest show a dust-coated
crust one or two sand grains thick, covering dark, finer sand.

"Active drifts on Mars look darker on the surface,"
said MAHLI Principal Investigator Ken Edgett of Malin Space Science
Systems in San Diego."This is an older drift that has had time
to be inactive, letting the crust form and dust accumulate on it."

CheMin's examination of Rocknest samples found the
composition is about half common volcanic minerals and half
non-crystalline materials such as glass. SAM added information about
ingredients present in much lower concentrations and about ratios of
isotopes. Isotopes are different forms of the same element and can
provide clues about environmental changes. The water seen by SAM does
not mean the drift was wet. Water molecules bound to grains of sand
or dust are not unusual, but the quantity seen was higher than
anticipated.

SAM tentatively identified the oxygen and
chlorine compound perchlorate. This is a reactive chemical previously
found in arctic Martian soil by NASA's Phoenix Lander. Reactions with
other chemicals heated in SAM formed chlorinated methane compounds --
one-carbon organics that were detected by the instrument. The
chlorine is of Martian origin, but it is possible the carbon may be
of Earth origin, carried by Curiosity and detected by SAM's high
sensitivity design.

"We used almost every part of our
science payload examining this drift," said Curiosity Project
Scientist John Grotzinger of the California Institute of Technology
in Pasadena. "The synergies of the instruments and richness of
the data sets give us great promise for using them at the mission's
main science destination on Mount Sharp."

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